Category: rtmp

Which method is better, HTTP downloading or RTMP streaming?

you should be moving to MPEG DASH, it is fast becoming the industry standard and even Microsoft is supporting it equally to their own Smooth Streaming system.

you should be moving to MPEG DASH, it is fast becoming the industry standard and even Microsoft is supporting it equally to their own Smooth Streaming system.

RTMP is the Adobe proprietary streaming mechanism, as Flash is reducing in popularity it too is declining.

It really depends what you’re using your video for… 

RTMP is a more secure form of streaming. It means that the whole video file is streamed in small chunks so that the entire file is never there in one piece for someone to download. It’s also conservative with your bandwidth (because only the section that your viewer is watching gets streamed) so if you’re looking for the most cost efficient way this could be the one. 

However, because RTMP streams your video in chunks it never loads ahead of time and viewers on slow speed connections might experience a bit of buffering as they wait for the rest of the file to stream. For the smoothest playback we at vzaar generally recommend HTTP because it DOES load ahead of time. 

The best choice really depends where your priorities lie – security or smooth playback

I recommend HTTP because it DOES load ahead of time. 

The best choice really depends where your priorities lie – security or smooth playback

RTMP Server to live streaming with HLS

Live streaming on our system is straight forward. After you order, we provide access to a control panel URL. You need to login to this control panel, which we call Wowza control

Live streaming on our system is straight forward. After you order, we provide access to a control panel URL. You need to login to this control panel, which we call Wowza control, as our main core on the server is with the Wowza Streaming Engine. After you have logged in to the Wowza control panel, you will see the services available, including live streaming, video on-demand and others. Select the service you want to start and click Overview (just under Options). Please see image with the black arrow.

rtmp overview

After you click Overview, a page opens for live streaming. A small player will appear with a warning that the media could not be loaded. Ignore this, because until you start streaming you will see that warning and some links such as “HTML Embed Code”. For the moment, the important part is the Live Streaming Connection, or FMS URL on the right, please see image:

fms url

For this connection, the full FMS URL is very important. A part may be missing when you copy, however, you need to copy the whole URL for the setup on your encoder. I use Notepad and copy the entire URL (see image).

Now it is time for the encoder, our RTMP Server works with all encoders, Wirecast, FMLE, and even for mobiles, for now I suggest you use OBS, you can download at https://obsproject.com/ .

The advantage of OBS is that it is quite simple if you already familiar with FMLE encoder for Adobe, but it is way better, and you can add to your live streaming media files on your computer, from video files, image files and photos and even your games.  On OBS click on settings and add the FMS URL, stream name, username and password, after that “Start Streaming” see image

RTMP FMS URL

Go back to the Wowza control panel, refresh to see your streaming and if everything looks good, click “HTML Embed Code”, then select the player you prefer and click apply. Copy the code and paste it on your site.

HTML5 Player